Playing the whole collection through, takes a long long time; taking advantage to clean em all, never done. In any event a few of the doubles have, for example 2 & 3 on one disc, 4 & 1 on tother. They are old discs and I just wonder if this was due to “record changers”, that setup you could stack discs on top of spindle and a mechanism would drop them, swing the arm etc. Observation, these discs have a lot of scratches.
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I never noticed that! You seem to be spot on, from Wikipedia: “…some releases … are optimized for automatic sequencing. On a double album, this would have had sides one and four on one disc and sides two and three on the other…”, and “Notable examples … include the 1968 Reprise Records release, Electric Ladyland, by The Jimi Hendrix Experience … Frampton Comes Alive! by Peter Frampton, Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder, Quadrophenia by The Who, and Bad Girls by Donna Summer.”
I once owned Comes Alive but never noticed the numbering.
Morning Jan
I have songs in the key of life, a top rated Frank Sinatra double, Live at the Sands, Jimmy Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland and just checked the numbering or indeed lettering. Yes, the logic is evidenced.
This seems particularly pertinent today as so many technologies exhibit a short window, perhaps just a fashion or a trend for the now. You cannot, happily, put an old head on young shoulders just believe that our “industrial complex” will keep in mind the lessons of the past.